Posts Tagged as ‘radiohead’

July 4, 2008

Will someone make Mark Ronson disappear, please?

The first time I heard the name ‘Mark Ronson’, I think it was a radio play of his cover of Radiohead’s ‘Just’. It was one of those times when you take a mental note of the name and check their MySpace later.
Ronson’s funked-up version of ‘Just’ may be a stoke of genius, but his current [...]

June 28, 2008

‘Rain down, rain down…’ - Radiohead @ Glasgow Green, 27 Jun

Everything was conspiring against me enjoying Radiohead last night.
1. We arrived too late to see support act Bat For Lashes.
2. Touts (evil scum that they are) were selling tickets outside for a tenner, tickets we’d paid £40 for.
3. The bar queue was ridiculous: no beer.
4. It rained almost continually - that especially wet, West Coast, [...]

June 12, 2008

New song from Radiohead… well, Thom Yorke anyway

Geeks might know ‘Super Collider’ as “an environment and programming language originally released in 1996 by James McCartney for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition”, but, to the rest of us, it’s the title of the new Radiohead song, currently receiving its premiere on their world tour.
Here’s a video, recorded by some over-enthusiastic fans [...]

November 1, 2007

Radiohead – In Rainbows (another review)

 
(Self-released)
First impressions of a record are notoriously unreliable. It makes the whole practice of writing about music seem (even more) futile (than it actually is) when you dismiss an album outright and find it growing on you steadily in the following months. This doesn’t happen too often, fortunately, but it does happen.
So as one of [...]